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SEWA is the Self-Employed Women's Association of Indi
Indi

Indi may refer to:*Mag-indi language*Division of Indi, an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives*Indi, Karnataka, a town in the state of India...
a, a trade union founded in 1972 after a split in the Textile Labour Association (TLA). It was founded by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr. Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt

Ela Ramesh Bhatt is the founder of India's Self-Employed Women's Association . A lawyer by training, Dr. Bhatt is a respected leader of the international labour, cooperative, women, and micro-finance movements who has won several national and international awards....
.

Today SEWA is a membership based organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. The members of SEWA earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. SEWA also work for those workers, who are employed in the informal sector, who might be called as unprotected labour force of India.






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SEWA is the Self-Employed Women's Association of Indi
Indi

Indi may refer to:*Mag-indi language*Division of Indi, an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives*Indi, Karnataka, a town in the state of India...
a, a trade union founded in 1972 after a split in the Textile Labour Association (TLA). It was founded by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr. Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt

Ela Ramesh Bhatt is the founder of India's Self-Employed Women's Association . A lawyer by training, Dr. Bhatt is a respected leader of the international labour, cooperative, women, and micro-finance movements who has won several national and international awards....
.

Today SEWA is a membership based organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. The members of SEWA earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. SEWA also work for those workers, who are employed in the informal sector, who might be called as unprotected labour force of India. Most of them do not have any access to the social security schemes of the government.

SEWA’s main goals are to organise women workers for full employment. Full employment means employment whereby workers obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and shelter). SEWA organises women to ensure that every family obtains full employment.

Gandhian thinking is the guiding force for SEWA’s poor, self-employed members in organising for social change. SEWA follows the principles of satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence), sarvadharma (integrating all faiths, all people) and khadi (propagation of local employment and self reliance)

SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad is the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat and one of the List of most populous metropolitan areas in India in India, with a population of approximately 52 lakhs ....
, Gujarat
Gujarat

Gujarat is a States and territories of India in western India. Gujarat borders Pakistan to the north west and the state of Rajasthan to the north and northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territory of Diu, Daman District, India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south....
. However, it works in several others states in India. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, SEWA had a membership of 606935 in 2002.

SEWA received the Right Livelihood Award
Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is an award that is presented annually, usually on December 9, to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today"....
 in 1984.

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